Microsoft released a new set of Windows Phone 8 emulators for the Windows Phone developers to support development environments for both WP8 Update 2 and Update 3 release. If you are targeting your apps for a large screen display, must try out them in the new emulator before submitting for certification.

Let’s discuss little on the new set of emulators in this post. You will also find the appropriate links towards the Microsoft Download Centre to install them in your development environment.

There are no big changes in Windows Phone 8 Update 2 emulator images. It has been updated to target Visual Studio 2013 RTM bits. If you already have the update 2 images, you can skip downloading this set. This set has support for 720P, WXGA, WVGA, WVGA 512 MB range of Windows Phone 8 devices, as shown here.

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Kunal Chowdhury is a Windows Platform Development MVP of Microsoft, a Telerik MVP, Nokia Developer Champion, Speaker in various Microsoft events, Author, passionate Blogger and a Software Engineer by profession.